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Lazio's three goals in 16 minutes take them three points clear at the top

Lazio won 6-2 at Sassuolo and are three points clear at the top of Serie A. Three goals in the first 16 minutes decided it before Kristian Thorstvedt's red card left the hosts with ten men.

Editorial board · 30 October 2026
An elevated view across a floodlit pitch on a misty day, with players in green and black facing a side in white, and spectators in winter coats and green scarves filling the foreground stand.
Sassuolo in action at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore in Reggio Emilia. Photo: Vincenzo.togni / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Lazio won 6-2 at Sassuolo and are three points clear at the top of Serie A. Three goals in the first 16 minutes decided it before Kristian Thorstvedt's red card left the hosts with ten men.

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Kenneth Taylor scored after two minutes, a left-footed finish from the centre of the box, and Sassuolo were level by the seventh after a long VAR check. Lazio then scored twice in three minutes: Gustav Isaksen met Mattia Zaccagni's cross first time and put it in the bottom corner, and Romano Floriani turned in Taylor's cross from close range.

Thorstvedt was sent off on 31 minutes for a tackle on Zaccagni. Sebastiano Esposito pulled one back two minutes before half-time, but Zaccagni headed in Isaksen's cross in stoppage time.

Stefano Turati saved penalties from Zaccagni on 50 minutes and Davide Frattesi on 61, and Tijjani Noslin answered each save with a goal from outside the box: a curl into the bottom corner on 55 minutes, a strike into the top corner on 65.

Lazio have 25 points from nine games, eight of them wins. Gennaro Gattuso would not count them: "We don't have to look at the standings," he said. Inter, three points behind, play at Venezia on Wednesday; Sassuolo stay 14th on eight points.